Severe all ties with that ridiculous organization, kick them out of that expensive real estate and start leasing the office space to productive people who contribute to society by making profits.

That's yet another way the government could operate without theft: lease out some or all of the wasteful "national forests" and the offices of federal buildings now housing agencies that are badly in need of downsizing to zero.

BTW, my answer is definitive as I stated, so if you have other candidates in mind, please start another thread.

The reason for us allying ourselves with other nations, as I understand it, is to help them resist tyranny so that we don't end up being the only free country in the world.

Perhaps, as we grow less and less free ourselves, the rationale for allies and a military are disappearing.

Astute words, Jeff.

If any of the plans to save the world from tyranny had actually worked, there would be much more agreement that we need our bloated military.

If Wilson's idea to "keep the world safe from democracy" had actually been the war to end all wars instead of only a prelude to an even more bloody mechanized mass slaughter. If FDR's plan to save European socialists that he liked from European socialists that he didn't like had led to freedom and peace those justifications would have more credibility. After all that money and blood, Europe and China were far less free than before.

The Cold War ended without a nuclear extinction by a miracle. But then we went right into the "War on Terror" AKA, the "War to make sure Israel isn't bothered by having to Defend itself." More than a decade and a half losing wars to countries like Afghanistan and waiting for those idiots in Iran to keep trying until they have a nuclear bomb and the Israel we're protecting goes away.

I say, pull in all of our military for border and coastal defense. If the rest of the world goes feral (Europe likely leading the way), ignore them. We have all the resources we need in the U.S. When other countries start starving, they will come to us for goods and we will sell them for whatever the market will bear.*